The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
Are you ready to be converted to living a gardening life? Each week, join Carol Michel and Dee Nash, both passionate gardeners, authors, and long-time bloggers, as they chat over the garden fence about flowers, veggies, and all the best dirt on gardening. Carol and Dee have the audacity to call themselves gardenangelists, evangelists for gardening, and want everyone to dig in the dirt, sow a few seeds, and enjoy the simple pleasures and even a few pitfalls of a gardening life. If you are ready to live a gardening life or already live one this is one podcast you don’t want to miss.
The Gardenangelists: Flowers, Veggies, and All the Best Dirt
We Can't Talk About the Letter "V" Without Violas
Dee and Carol are almost at the end of the alphabet, but there's still plenty of time in the gardening season. Join us to discuss the letter "V".
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Flowers:
V is for all-things Verbena
Verbena ‘Bampton’ (Verbena officinalis var. grandiflora)
Verbena hastata - Blue Vervain. Can get seeds from Select Seeds
Annual verbena, Verbena x hybrida Like Verbena ‘Sweetheart Kisses, an AAS Winner.
Vegetables:
Vetch as a cover crop. Perennial that can become invasive.
Vitex - Vitex agnus-castus - Chaste Tree
On the Bookshelf:
A Year and a Day on Just a Few Acres by Peter Larson (Amazon link) His YouTube channel is Just a Few Acres Farm.
Also, A Very Small Farm by William Paul Winchester (Amazon Link)
Dirt:
The 2,000-Year-Old ‘Perfume Garden’ in the Ancient City of Pompeii Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory: Smithsonian
Rabbit Holes:
Dee: New blog post on Substack: Tomatoes, peppers, okra, and squash
Carol: Discovered more Lost Ladies of Garden Writing and wrote a Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day Post.
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On Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.
On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.
On YouTube.